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Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a suicide bombing in Baghdad July 19, 2021. Pope Francis expressed his condolences after the bombing, which occurred in a busy market and claimed dozens of lives.

Pope Francis 'deeply saddened' by Baghdad market bombing

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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis expressed his condolences after a suicide bombing in a busy market in Baghdad claimed the lives of dozens of people.

Students at Cross Lake Indian Residential School in Manitoba pose with their teacher in 1940.

Archdiocese of Toronto building plan to aid residential school survivors

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The Archdiocese of Toronto has announced a three-pronged plan aimed at supporting its efforts to aid residential school survivors and Indigenous communities, including a fundraising campaign.

The grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School are seen June 6, 2021.

Details surface about assumed school grave sites in Kamloops

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VANCOUVER — The ground-penetrating radar specialist who studied the area near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia has released more details about her findings.

First Nations representatives lead pilgrims to the grotto during the pilgrimage in 2015. The annual event usually attracts thousands, but due to the pandemic and recent fire damage it has been cancelled two years in a row.

Mission pilgrimage cancelled again as grotto damaged

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VANCOUVER — The largest annual event in the Archdiocese of Vancouver, which draws thousands of Catholics to a historic site in Mission, has been cancelled for the second year in a row.

Twins Josh and Jesse Bailey, graduates of Hoy Names High School in Windsor, Ont., are off to NCAA schools on scholarships this fall, a stepping stone, they hope, toward representing Canada at the Olympics.

Olympic dreams inch closer for twins

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For teenage sprint hurdlers Josh and Jesse Bailey, the goal of one day competing for Canada in the Olympics is much more than a distant dream.

A homeless encampment is set up behind St. Paul’s Basilica in downtown Toronto, across the street from The Good Shepherd.

Dealing with the reality of homelessness

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The tents in city parks, men and women gathered under Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway, lean-tos and sleeping bags scattered through ravines, camp fires among the alder trees near the beaches — none of this is new to Toronto. But it has become a lot more visible since COVID came to town.

Bishop Vital Justin Grandin (1829-1902).

Bishop Grandin removed from Alberta schools

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The Calgary Catholic School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to change the name of Bishop Grandin High School in light of Bishop Vital Justin Grandin’s (1829-1902) key role in establishing residential schools in Canada’s west.

Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

Assisted death in Canada is on the rise

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Nearly 7,600 Canadians chose to die via MAiD (medical assistance in dying) in 2020, an increase of 35 per cent over the previous year, the latest numbers released by Health Canada show.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau places a teddy bear at an unmarked grave as he visits the Cowessess First Nation near Grayson, Sask., July 6.

Former chief demands Cowessess residential school records

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Indigenous scholar and former Cowessess First Nation Chief Terry Pelletier is challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate to ensure any Cree person can look up the full records of their family members who attended the Marieval Indian Residential School, where approximately 751 unmarked graves were found in June.

Pope Francis

Calls increase for papal apology over residential schools

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Over the last five years retired Ontario Superior Court Justice George Valin has asked three different Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ presidents why the bishops can’t simply, unanimously and open-heartedly invite Pope Francis to apologize on Canadian soil for the long, sad history of Catholic-run residential schools. He has yet to receive an answer.

Police detain a person during protests in Havana July 11, 2021. Thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest a lack of food and medicine as the country undergoes a grave economic crisis aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S. sanctions.

Religious leaders in Cuba voice support for peaceful protests

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HAVANA -- The Conference of Catholic Religious in Cuba representing men and women religious in the Caribbean nation is supporting the "legitimate and universal right" of Cubans to express grievances with the government in an "orderly and peaceful way in public."

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